(New(ish)) Indexing in Magento or “The wonderful world of materialized views”
The Wonderful World of Materialized Views (or, Why Indexing in Magento 1.13 Is So Much Faster) When Magento Enterprise 1.13…
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Testing Magento with random URLs in JMeter
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of…
JMeter test script for layered navigation
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It…
What is the first event fired in Magento?
controller_front_init_before Technically, it’s resource_get_tablename, but the first usable event is controller_front_init_before. But this is also a bit of a trick…
4 charts that are guaranteed to make you a better performance detective
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either…
Magento memory utilization for backend work
I was talking with a colleague about my previous blog post on memory utilization in Magento and he noted that…
Using events in Magento 2
Note, this is based off of an older version of the Magento 2 codebase. With the minimal research I have…
(Basic) Configuring the Magento 2 Dependency Injection Container
My previous blog post on the DIC (Dependency Injection Container) in Magento 2 covered just some basics of using the…
(Starting) Using Dependency Injection in Magento 2
One of the biggest switches you will experience when moving from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is inversion of control.…